He has to defend his quarter-final points in Madrid as well, which I'm sure he won't, so he'll be down even more. Shame, because I like him as a player, he just can't seem to get himself together lately

are you kidding? safin was also very inconsistent and often didn't care but at least he won 2 slams(beating prime federer and then GOAT sampras). gulbis will never win a slam, so there are lightyears between them.

the reason why gulbis dropped is that he basically lost every match in the last 6 months.